Green Cloud Technologies, a Cloud technology solutions provider headquartered in Greenville, SC, has announced the deployment of its second data center facility, which will be located in Nashville, Tennessee. This site will house a fully redundant mirrored location of its facility in Greenville, SC. Nashville is expected to come online during third quarter 2012.
The launch of this data center provides an increased level of geo-diversity for Green Cloud, with regional power grids and fiber trunking routes that are independent of those in place in South Carolina. Such separation further minimizes potential impacts of localized catastrophic events. Fiberbased connections will tie the two centers together.
“The planning and design of our FlexPod infrastructure – a highly scalable architecture built around the industry-leading platforms of Cisco, NetApp, and VMware – provides for a reliable, redundant environment built to address incremental failures and safeguards against catastrophic events,”
explains Keith Coker, chief technology officer of Green Cloud. “The deployment of a second world-class site that is a mirror of our facility in Greenville enables us to respond rapidly in the face of a devastating event and to continue to offer our customers the highest levels of confidence in the security and accessibility of their data.”
Green Cloud has partnered with Peak 10, whose state-of-the-art facilities provide efficient, secure and redundant services. Facility features include SAS70/SSAE compliance, redundant access, multiple generators and UPS systems, fire suppression, controlled temperature and humidity systems, advanced security, and 24x7x365 monitoring.
The location of the site in Tennessee positions the company for westward expansion and rapid growth.
Immedion, LLC, a leading dedicated data center and managed services provider, announces the hiring of Brad Tompkins as General Manager of their Asheville data center. Tompkins is responsible for the management of the Asheville facility and for helping Immedion expand their footprint in the Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee markets. In addition to Immedion’s Asheville data center, they have locations in Greenville, Columbia and Charleston, SC.
Tompkins most recently served as the Director of Technology for Seibels an insurance technology services company based out of Columbia, SC where he oversaw all of their technology operations. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Brad has a BS in information systems. 
Upstate Women in Technology presents, “Project Management – Tools of the Trade” with Jennie Fowler, Certified Master Project Manager with 20 years of PM experience for its May 24 meeting.
Tech After Five, a networking event company for tech professionals with events hosted in South Carolina and North Carolina, announced its further expansion into North Carolina with their 5th location, Asheville, NC.
InnoVenture will cap off this year’s conference with the upstate’s largest tech focused after hours networking event, Tech After Five. The Greenville Tech After Five will serve as the grand finale and after party of day two of InnoVenture 2012 on May 9 at the TD Convention Center from 5:30pm-7:30pm. 
The InnoVenture 2012 Conference in Greenville, SC will discover new business opportunities and help them develop by connecting with customers, capital, talent and technology. Learn more about and register for the conference at the 
On May 1 the Clemson Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the GSA Technology Council and Upstate SC Alliance presented “Expanding Your Business in the Aerospace Industry,” to introduce a variety of leaders from the 180 aerospace and aviation firms located in South Carolina.
TSAChoice, Asheville & Western NC’s largest voice, telecommunications, IT, data, network and audio-visual company with new offices in Greenville, SC, are hosting an “Eat & Educate” event to discuss Access Control and Digital Video Recording on May 16 at Nose Dive in downtown Greenville.
